The war in Ukraine is still anyone's game, but those repeating Russian talking points never change their tack.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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Putin should have just invited Ukraine for a cup of tea. He's pretty bad at the other way
Pootin cannot afford to lose this war so he will destroy the entire world rather than accept defeat.
"Will not going to invade."
For fucks sake! Proofread your memes people!
I think it represents that crowd pretty well haha.
I will not going to proofread my mems when I mak them.
I don’t mak them.
My wife is a tax accountant and works on various complex multi-million dollar files, and she said it's honestly demoralizing sometimes to see how many people who can't spell simple words or distinguish the difference between their, there and they're on professional documents and correspondence, are out there making absurd amounts of money and reaping their success.
Not made by me originally, but I agree.
In eastern Ukraine, I foresee a long term South Ossetia/Abkhazia situation where most of the world doesn't recognise the new ""constitutional status"" but the Russians won't care because they are in de facto control of the region.
Meanwhile in the west we continue to dripfeed weapons and equipment to Ukraine which is just enough to keep them afloat but not enough to help them actually expel the Russians. We're both afraid of abandoning Ukraine to it's fate and Putin potentially using nuclear weapons if we go too far with our support. It's a shit show.
Western propaganda doesn't exist
I heard on Russian TV that it does and it's really bad.
Biden bombs three countries:
No we're not in a war right now. This is a special military operation
Military strikes on non-state actors to discourage further attacks with no significant presence on the ground? Probably not an actual war.
Full-on invasion of a sovereign state using a massive proportion of your total ground forces to penetrate their borders and massacre their citizens? Probably a war.
Yeah the biggest political faction in Yemen that controls the country totally not a state actor.
Russians will tell you they were just bombing Azov Nazi groups.
And they conveniently don't recognize Ukraine so that's not an official government either!
I guess there was no war in Afghanistan either because the Taliban is not officially recognized by us as their government.
Special miliary operations all the way down.
the biggest political faction in Yemen
This doesn't seem to be a clear description. The Houthis look like they control the largest territory in terms of population and cities, but the internationally recognized government factions are in control of more land. And are also recognized as the ruling authority.
Certainly, they aren't a small and trivial group, but they're also not a sovereign government. It's a large revolutionary group. A good comparison is probably the US revolutionary war actually -- I don't think I'd say the US colonists were the biggest political faction over the British. They were certainly powerful and ultimately won, but they weren't the controlling authority of the region.
Nobody cares about some desert land. If you have the population you rule the country.
What is internationally recognized is not relevant. If Iran recognizes something we don't care either.
The fact is that America is not just conducting some "special military operation" in the middle east. They are actively at war defending israel's Genocide.
I'm not disagreeing that the US is doing that. I just don't know the veracity of calling the Houthis the biggest political faction.
I also don't know that war is the correct term, but that's more of a semantics difficulty of the 21st century. Supplying arms vs conducting airstrikes vs ground invasions -- I agree with what you're saying overall though. The US is helping Israel, and Israel is committing genocide.
I really don't think this is germaine though to the topic of Russian propaganda in the Ukraine war.
